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English: Rajendra K. Pachauri, the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which shared the 2007 Nobel Prize together with Al Gore, at a conference in Vienna, 22 June 2009. Photo by Mikhail Evstafiev (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Surviving Climate Change
Is a Green Energy Revolution on the Global Agenda?By Michael T. Klare
None of us can predict the future, but when it comes to a mass rebellion against the perpetrators of global destruction, we can see a glimmer of the coming upheaval in events of the present moment. Take a look and you will see that the assorted environmental protests that have long bedeviled politicians are gaining in strength and support. ...it is possible to imagine such a green energy revolution erupting in one part of the world and spreading like wildfire to others. A wave of serial eruptions of this sort would not be without precedent.
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I have not accepted the UN premise ( the IPCC is a UN bureaucracy ) that the sky is warming and we all must fry. ( Not that warming and increased CO2 is associated with other than prolific plant growth ).
The big problem with coal is actually the atmospheric scrubbers whose product has deposited radioactive toxic residue by waterways. I suggest the SourceWatch posts on Coal Ash; which is 'contained' ineffectively. Plus relaxed mining constraints protecting from the folly of strip mining add to water pollution.
The idea that CO2 will cause climate change was a premise of the formation of the IPCC and its models : which is dedicated to producing scientism bolstering alarm. Modeling is not data. Nor is peer review of proponents an acceptable substitute for scientific method.
Any alleged consensus ( peer review ) falls on the hard reality of stiff dissent from the proposition that we control climate and predict the future ( scientific method in operation ) . Too much simplification has occurred for modeling to be remotely feasible : short timelines, sparse data, unknown processes, chaotic conditions, uncalculable reactions and the reality that a water covered surface* (repetition omitted) heated from below by nuclear reactions ( with attendant CO2 release ) are not reassuring of the accuracy of projections : especially with methane release from the sea bottom and Arctic tundra plus CO2 coming out of solution in seawater all making a complete and utter hash of any potential for analysis. Not that such could be validated regardless.
Wind power doesn't work. Catastrophic gearbox failure is not fixable. Electric cars are hobbled by Chevron's patent lock up on NiMh automotive batteries. See Who Killed the Electric Car? ( EV-1 ) and the history of Toyota's electric RAV4 hybrid.
( I have been interested in the Fundy Power Project in the Minas Basin.)
There are really scary stories about Fukushima. Background analysis would suggest that it was part of systematic kludge dogging the nuclear generation industry. The NPT TRAP is only part of the story. GE engineers and building contractors alike resigned over their concerns about putting reactors with used fuel containers requiring constant cooling in an earthquake/tsunami zone.
But the green revolution didn't work for Germany nor Spain ( which went solar ).
Food for thought. http://www.iop.org/news/13/may/page_60200.html
less than half of the general public think scientists agree that humans are causing global warming.( some of us think that meteorologists' scorn is richly deserved )
http://www.climategate.com/
RSS feeds promoting anything from antipathy to outright condemnation of 'warmism' alarm.
The source of 'consensus' http://www.webcitation.org/5nCXFD6mY
The emails http://michaelkelly.artofeurope.com/cru.htm
Delingpole journalizing http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100234054/if-you-still-believe-in-climate-change-read-this/
You must have faith ! ( but not in God ) http://www.interfaithpowerandlight.org/about/
My posts ( see Archives ) at my.opera.com/oldephartte/blog will be history Mar 1. Dec 1 and 4 2009 were my first notes on the climate contention,
Much more in sidebar notes and in the pages
http://oldephartte.blogspot.ca/p/oz-to-loose-ministry-of-truth-on-posted.html http://oldephartte.blogspot.ca/p/environmental-challenges-art-climate.html
Apologies for repetition in those 2 pages. Nor have many of the notes at Livejournal of various sidebar lists on Blogger made it to the summaries.
Creeping China
( Consider the source - all the way from use of the propaganda staple 'emboldening' to India's ongoing hostility to China. Envy might also colour analysis. )
YaLibnan
Qassem Suleimani, one of the most dangerous people in the
world is the Iranian operative who has been reshaping the Middle East…
from orchestrating the killing of Lebanon’s Hariri to putting Maliki
in charge of Iraq . Now he’s directing Assad’s war in Syria.
Here are the most basic answers to your most basic
questions. This is not an exhaustive or definitive account of that
entire story, just some background, written so that anyone can
understand it.
by Ghassan Karam No one will be able to forget anytime soon
the grotesque images of the over 1300 bloodless dead Syrians in the
suburbs of Damascus any time soon. I know that these images, especially
those of one row after another of the innocent young children will
literally speaking stay with me for the [...]
By David Ignatius, The world still talks about Syria as if
it’s a single country, but some members of the Syrian opposition are
beginning to discuss the reality that Syria today is effectively
partitioned
By: YASMIN ALIBHAI BROWN, The Arab Spring was real and
authentic, a surge to claim human rights and remake ossified nations
that were ruled by dictators. What happened next?
By Thomas L. Friedman, The Syrian disaster is like a
superstorm. It’s what happens when drought, a fast-growing population, a
repressive and corrupt government, and sectarian and religious passions
combine.
by Ghassan Karam Let me stress from the start that one of
the main outcomes of an electric PV initiative is a substantial decrease
in the carbon footprint of the consumers. I will not expand on this
issue in the current post because of the space limitations but let me
stress that each KWH produced [...]
When Egyptians poured onto the streets in their millions to
demand the fall of President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, few thought they
would return two years later demonstrating for the overthrow of the man
they elected to replace him.
Diplomacy is running full bore in the Syrian conflict, and
even as horrors multiply on the battlefield, a good portion of the war
is also being carried out in words
Syrian rebels say peace talks doomed to failure
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The institutions of our ruling world have a powerful stake in the mad momentum of climate change -- the energy system that’s producing it and the political stasis that sustains and guarantees it -- so powerful as to seem unbreakable. Don’t count on them to avert the coming crisis. They can’t. In some sense, they are the crisis.
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At Harvard, my alma mater, a fierce campaign by courageous and strategic-minded students has spun off a parallel campaign by alumni. They are being asked to withhold contributions to the university and to donate to an escrow fund until Harvard divests from its direct holdings in FFCs and undertakes to divest from its indirect holdings as well.